You Talkin' to Me?

Blah, blah, blah. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Yap, yap, yap. There’s a lot of blather out there in the verbalsphere – you know what I’m saying? So you need to be crafty in order to be heard. We’ll wax eloquent about those who succeed at getting their messages across… from a theory about how animals compete for bandwidth to the beautiful and sonorous language of whales.

Also, how to recognize a message from E.T. And, making the case for letting that library card lapse: the extinction of the written word.